BANGLADESH NATIONAL CRICKET TEAM

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

To analyze and visualize the performance of Bangladesh National Cricket Team since 2000. According to BUSINESS STANDARD, a trusted news portal, Bangladesh Cricket Board(BCB) is the fifth richest board in the world. Moreover, the country itself reserves huge budget for BCB. It would, therefore, be very interesting to look into the performance of the most popular team under BCB.

Data Source

Majority of the data have been collected from ESPNcricinfo. Some data were also collected from Wikipedia and official website of International Cricket Board (ICC). 1) ESPNcricinfo: https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/index.html?id=25;type=team

2) Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_national_cricket_team

3) ICC: https://www.icc-cricket.com/teams/men/22/bangladesh/overview

4) Business Standard: https://www.tbsnews.net/sports/bcb-fifth-richest-board-world-then-why-domestic-cricket-languishing-309406

Steps

1) Collection of data from the aforementioned sources and storing them in appropriate format

2) Arranging the data according to Date and Year

3) Determining the success indicators besides Win/Loss

4) Caluculating the success indicators: The success indicators are Net Run Rate (NRR), Net Run Rate (NRR) differences and the progress in ICC World Cups. After calculation, they were stored in new and separate columns.

5) Determining the appropriate graphs to convey the stories.

6) Coding for the appropriate graphs

Bangladesh Team's Ranking:

The above table shows the rankings of the Bangladesh Cricket Team in three different match types in 2021.

Two Team Series

The first data-set will contain information regarding series between two teams, that is Bangladesh vs Any Other Team.

It can be seen from the graph that in majority of the matches, Bangladesh lost the match and there are more matches with larger losses than matches with larger wins. The team started to win such type of matches after year 2004.

Multiple Team Series

The second data-set contains results from Bangladesh's participation in series against more than one opponents.

Next, the data from the 'Result' column in the above data-set is extracted and put in a new list. The percentages of Win,Lose and Shared in the Series are calculated and stored in a new .csv file.

Now lets create a graph to display the data.

Please visit this link, Download the the file and view the graph from your computer:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oAjhw7mom8vjIO_iQd50VEW9NoZXXzma/view?usp=sharing

GRAPH:

Now, let's compare the Net Run Rates(NRR) of Bangladesh team and the Winning team in the series Bangladesh lost.

Please visit this link, Download the the file and view the graph from your computer:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTPyFBMhiqerigizj1LL8pm6-tH_xQ-o/view?usp=sharing

It can be seen that the NRRs of Bangladesh team and the Winning team used to differ a lot in the earlier matches. However, the difference started to decrease as years went by. The latest performace, though, wasn't satisfactory.

Test Series

The third data-set contains records of Bangladesh playing Test Cricket Series with all the other teams holding test position at present.

Please visit this link, Download the the file and view the graph from your computer:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X5xnjBDWu8Jfmvs73Y2yjUy68YnwXBQo/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uqxAl4XKsmUtoMmmt17jJ_1aI5MvB4EK/view?usp=sharing

It can be seen from the graphs that Bangladesh did not have much Wins in Test Cricket. The team also has opponents with whom they never won any test matches.

ICC World Cup and ICC T20 World Cup

The fourth data-set consists of Bangladesh's performances in two of the biggest tournaments in cricket.These tournaments occur periodically and are a great indicator of how each team is doing compared to all other A-list teams.

ICC World Cups:

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The team has to go a long way to progress to Semi-finals and Finals of one of the biggest cricket tournament, ICC World Cup.

ICC T20 World Cups:

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The team does very poorly in ICC T20 World Cups and even other T20 matches in general.

Conclusion

Since 2000, Bangladesh Cricket Team has seen improvements in general matches because they started to win matches and their Net Run Rate difference with the other teams started to decrease. However, the improvements weren't strong enough to pull them up through the stages of ICC World Cups and ICC T20 World Cups. Moreover, the team needs to improve a lot more in test cricket matches.